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Technorati and Me

Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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Speaking of atheists, I'm an atheist myself. I recognize that lots of really nice people are religious, and
to the extent that they practice on private property without hurting me, without hurting innocent kids, and without any of
my tax dollars supporting them, it's
none of my business whatever nonsense they believe in believing, no matter how bizarre or horrid. So long as it's make believe, they can pretend they are drinking
actual human blood and do it with my blessing.
Yes, there are some real world, not-pretend abuses
of religious license where kids do get hurt and tax dollars do support private religious practices. Those abuses bug me. They bug me
a lot. Also, there are some objectively immoral practices enshrined in mainstream religious dogma that need correcting, especially with respect to the
abuse of children, but also with respect to the undue hatred of people that are not like us. These abuses bug me a lot as well.

Yes, atheists like me have
some serious and objective criticisms of mainstream religion that need to be heard, but I'm not about to raise awareness of these serious issues
by putting a pasta strainer on my head at a DMV photo shoot like this gnocci-brain did.

Saints be praised, people like Niko Alm give atheists a bad name. No wonder the religious majority in this country think we are
soulless morons. To start with, everybody
knows that proper Pastafarian garb is pirate regalia. He should be wearing a tricorn and an eyepatch, not
playing around with some silly colander. Yarrr! The heretic must walk the plank after he
confesses his crime.

What? You say he's not a heretic to be forked over to Davy Jones because Pastafarianism (let alone scolapastaintestationism) is plainly not a religion
at all. Rather, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is obviously a put up job -- a satirical stunt. The details of FSM dogma don't matter because they were merely made up for the stunt. Colander, tricorn, yarmulke, they're all
the same. That's the point. Ha ha!

Sorry. Can't have it both ways. If it's so obvious Pastafarianism is invalid as religion, then it's also the case that the put-up job has no point. To deny the obvious just insults everyone's intelligence.
All a millitant Pastafarian putz like Niko Alm will accomplish is to diminish any chance legitimate aspects of the atheist agenda will ever get a serious hearing.

Maybe if Pastafarians were using their noodles, they'd adhere, ummm, well, religiously to the arbitrary dogma they invented. If they
waited long enough without accidentally breaking character and lapsing into a fit of giggles, maybe then they can make some kind of shocking point when they
let the meatball roll onto the floor at some future date. They don't need to wait very long. L Ron Hubbard wrote a lame self-help book in 1952, and in 1993 the IRS
granted his nonsense status as a tax free religion. That's only 41 years to achieve the ultimate tax dodge. Imagine
if today's Mormon leaders were to come out and say: "Yo! Check it out. Joe Smith just made up all that crap about Moroni and the golden plates. It's
a con that lets us have our way with lots of young girls. HAHA! I can't believe you all fell for that shit."